Inside Pranai's special cell, after a brief silence following Pranai's question, "Why did you choose me?" the Great Love Poet still offered no response.

The figure with black hair and green eyes merely smiled softly.

"Why are you smiling?"

"I remembered something happy."

The Great Love Poet replied, Pranai had never seen a truly useless, shameful demon.

"Is my appearance amusing you?"

"Perhaps your previous words played a part, but only ten percent."

"..."

The Great Love Poet's reply puzzled Pranai, but he sensed that the King wasn't truly mocking him, but rather negating his words in some way, making him understand that he wasn't a useless Great Demon.

Finally.

"King, I have only one question. Can we escape directly to the Southern Continent and return after a century? Let's not entangle ourselves in this Protoss Empire's vortex any longer. This is an opportunity to quickly realize our long-cherished wish, but the risk is too great."

Pranai spoke in a low voice to the Great Love Poet, not lifting his head for a long time.

"No, this is the one thing I cannot promise you, nor can I deceive you about."

The Great Love Poet answered his question swiftly and rapidly.

And so, Pranai fell into silence again.

After giving Pranai some time to think, the Great Love Poet spoke again.

"Pranai, the more you excel at calculations, the more you will discover that you cannot outsmart change, not even with future sight. Even the Goddess of Destiny cannot control it, otherwise the Church of Resurrection would not exist in this world. You should understand this principle better than I do."

The Great Love Poet sat in front of Pranai, gently placing his hands on his knees, and spoke to himself.

"Sometimes, the closer you get to one hundred percent safety, the more afraid you become, isn't it? Yet you also know very well that there is no absolutely safe place in this world. Please think carefully, can you truly find inner peace by staying in this prison?"

The Great Love Poet's demeanor exuded a gentle and firm aura, his eyes able to perceive the turmoil and pain in Pranai's heart.

"..."

Pranai still lowered his head, lost in thought and silent.

"In your world, pain and challenges are unavoidable, but the more persistent you are, the more you will deepen this unease. By my side, you can put down all your burdens, rely on me, and enjoy this pure peace of mind."

The Great Love Poet continued.

"But... if I want peace of mind, I have to let go of this persistence, but my unease also prevents me from letting go."

Pranai's heart was conflicted as he spoke to the new King.

By the new King's side, he seemed to feel a peace he had never experienced before.

But if he agreed to the new King's words, he would also be violating his own long-held principles. He feared that overly unknown theories and experiments would plunge him into true despair.

"Then Pranai, please tell me first, what is inner peace? And when do you usually experience inner peace?"

The Great Love Poet said softly.

"..."

Pranai fell into confusion.

"I'm not sure, maybe I've never truly experienced inner peace."

Pranai replied in a low voice.

"After the decline of the Demon Realm, you have been working hard to find inner peace, haven't you?"

The Great Love Poet gently clasped his hands together, as if he had found the problem, and said to Pranai,

"You are trying to suppress desires, I can see that. For a demon to suppress their desires, it sounds like an unnatural act, but unfortunately, many times it is desires that cause misfortune. Isn't the destruction of the Demon Realm due to this?"

"You want your heart to be unmoved by emotions and desires, to have a calm heart, to reach an ideal state of safety."

"..."

Seeing that Pranai didn't want to speak at the moment, but wanted to listen more, the Great Love Poet continued.

"Or returning to the original hedonism, not extravagant in excessive pleasure, but maintaining enough to eat, drink, and keep warm, or maintaining the most basic living conditions, rejecting excessive luxury and vanity, and obtaining great satisfaction from a simple life, can also achieve inner peace."

"As of now, you have successfully reached these two realms in this Herloom Prison, so what then? Have you ever thought about whether you really feel inner peace?"

The Great Love Poet stopped speaking here, waiting for Pranai's response.

"I can't feel it."

Pranai admitted, his voice carrying a trace of weakness,

"For the past hundred years, I have been in pain every day. To be honest, today is the happiest day of my life."

He waited for his words to make the new King laugh again.

However, the Great Love Poet did not laugh this time.

He just nodded very seriously.

"It is a remarkable thing that you can make so many efforts for inner peace, and for me, what is inner peace is also a difficult proposition, because different identities, different positions, and different things faced, inner peace will also be different."

The Great Love Poet's voice was gentle and powerful, and every word was full of encouragement.

"Although I took the liberty of telling you so much, I am very sorry that I also want to know what inner peace is for you."

Even if the voice stopped there, Pranai seemed to hear the next sentence—

This is exactly what I want to help you achieve.

"Pranai, if you don't want to leave today, I still hope to be friends with you. Maybe we will meet again one day, but if you are willing to come with me, I will put you in the safest place and protect you, and try not to let you fight. Even if I let you take action, I will only let you fight in a sure-win situation."

The Great Love Poet's voice was very soft, not wanting to put any pressure on Pranai,

"By my side, if one day there are enemies who want to threaten your inner peace, I will definitely die in battle first, and then it will be your turn."

This time, Pranai finally raised his head, looking at the black-haired, green-eyed figure with extremely complicated eyes.

In this endless darkness, there is always a ray of light.

He wanted to say something, wanted to ask the new King why he treated him like this, but he found that he had already asked that question.

In the other party's emerald green eyes, his own expression was reflected, full of regret and remorse.

"You still want to ask me again, why am I so obsessed with a 'useless,' 'shameful' demon like you, right?"

The Great Love Poet asked Pranai with a smile.

"Yes... I want your direct answer, instead of comforting me again."

Pranai's voice was rarely firm, as if he wanted to understand whether he could respond to the new King's expectations.

"Don't crave what you don't have and miss what you already possess, Pranai."

The Great Love Poet said earnestly,

"You are good at realizing your own crises and want to try to remedy them, which is commendable, but putting the same effort into re-examining your own strengths is also important. You will find that finding your strengths is far more valuable than staring at your biggest shortcomings."

After this sentence, Pranai's eyes finally brightened.

(End of this chapter)